On-demand sharing of a high-resolution panorama video from networked robotic cameras

— Due to their flexibility in coverage and resolution, networked robotic cameras become more and more popular in applications such as natural observation, security surveillance, and distance learning. Equipped with a high optical zoom lens, a networked robotic camera can generate a giga-pixellevel panorama to cover its viewable region. As new live frames enter the system, this panorama can be updated as a panorama video. User requests are usually not limited to the current camera frame. A user may request a specific region associated with a specific time window. To satisfy different spatiotemporal requests for multiple concurrent users, we present systems and algorithms to allow the on-demand sharing of the high-resolution panorama video. The high-resolution panorama video is encoded into a patch-based representation to allow efficient storage and on-demand content delivery. We present system architecture, user interface, data representation, and encoding/decoding algorithms. In ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IROS
• Authors: Ni Qin, Dezhen Song
• Keywords: Giga-pixellevel Panorama, IROS 2007, Networked Robotic Camera, Panorama Video, Robotics